NXP Wants to Bring Machine Learning to "Edge" Processors

NXP Semiconductors N.V. has rolled out a machine learning environment aimed at developers of intelligent vision, voice, and industrial applications. The new software environment is said to be unique in that it brings machine learning to so-called "edge" applications, where cost, processing power, and memory availability may be constrained. It also simplifies the process of employing machine learning--especially for engineers who have no idea how to get started. "Up to now, machine learning has been done by major OEMs and big companies on expensive chips," Gowri Chindalore, head of technology and business strategy for embedded processors at NXP, told Design News. "We are lowering the barrier for implementing machine learning, so it can go into cost-sensitive, edge-processing applications."